Hi, - can anyone help me with this.
I've been running Sib.6 quite happily on my Mac Pro and upgraded to Sib.7 yesterday. The program installed and runs with no problem. I then installed the complete Sibelius 7 Sounds library (from the DVDs) onto a separate internal hard drive. (I then upgraded the program to 7.0.2 and upgraded the sound library.)
When I attempted to playback a couple of the demo files it was pretty obvious that the hard drive containing the sound library was not up to the job as the sounds were 'skipping' badly and the drive itself was 'chattering' away in the Mac. I then copied the files from the internal drive to a brand new Iomega 2-Terabyte desktop drive and deleted the original files from the internal drive.
When I restarted Sibelius it asked me to locate the sound library so I directed it to the folder that I'd created that contains the copied files. I now find that if I select the Sibelius 7 Sounds configuration I get no sound from any instruments. There's plenty of visual activity in the Mixer window, but I hear nothing. I checked the playback devices and the Sib.6 Essential Sounds work fine, so I know that it's not a problem with the audio output in general, just with playback of the new library. On start-up, the Sibelius 'splash' window shows me all the sounds being located, so why don't they playback? There doesn't seem to be any activity from the external hard drive either.
In desperation I re-installed the library onto the external drive from the DVDs again, over-writing the existing files, but the result is the same.(At least when the library was on the internal drive, as bad as it was, I could hear Sibelius trying to play the sounds..)
I may have done something wrong here, but if anyone can offer me any advice I would really appreciate it. Thanks...
Bruno

Hi - I have exactly the same problem. I also notice that trying to export a sound (aiff) file creates an empty file. Using Sibelius 6 sounds works fine. It would interesting to get a definitive guide to where each sound file should be and exactly what there should be in each folder.

The Sib 7 sounds work fine on my laptop, but my studio Mac pro has VU's flashing on the Sibelius mixer, but no sound. The difference is that the samples are located on a 2nd internal drive. This should make playback better, shouldn't it? :-)

I'm not impressed with 7 at all. Far too many bugs for things that are basic and should have been sorted out long before release.

I had many numerous problems with having Sib 7 sounds on a secondary drive. Finally installed it on the primary to get some work done and the problems (for the most part) have gone away. Still having tons of problems using Sib 7 sounds and Kontakt at the same time... but that's another story.

Now run the Sibelius 7 Sounds installer(s) again from the DVDs or your download, and specify the final location in which you want the samples to reside as the installation location, rather than allowing it to use the default path and then moving it later.

Hugh, there is no sounds installer in Sibelius702b8.dmg, which is the application installer only. You have not installed any sounds, if that is all you have tried to install. There are four sounds installers, one on each of the four DVD-ROMs. You need to install all four of those. Sibelius 7 Sounds are not available to users of the downloaded 30-day trial, they are available only to those who have purchased the product.

1. It would be useful to say that the sounds only come with the DVD version not the download version.

2. The Version 7 sounds on the demo page sound much like the Version 6 sounds (which is why I wanted to check using a Version 7 Sibelius directly).

3. Having the demo timer expire when I reload the demo is not good. I wanted to finish evaluating the other stuff before I decided.

4. Is it possible to turn off the ribbon bar and reinstate the Version 6 menu system ? That way those who are completely at home with Version 6 can get the benefit of the extra features of Version 7 without having another set of ribbon buttons to learn.

Sadly, on the basis of the above I am going to stick to Version 6 (without full evaluation it is really not worth changing even if the sounds turn out to be better).